Israeli air raids pounded Tyre, an ancient coastal city in Lebanon which is renowned for its UNESCO World Heritage Site,…
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When Joël Lapointe was wandering with his Google Maps cursor to plan his camping vacation in Quebec’s Côte-Nord region, he…
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A perfectly preserved burrow of fossilized snakes shows that the reptiles have been social creatures for almost 40 million years,…
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The leathery strip of skin from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth sporting a mullet-like hairdo isn’t much to look at, says geneticist Olga Dudchenko…
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TAIPEI, Taiwan – Across the Chinese diaspora, racing in dragon boats has been a tradition reaching back thousands of years.…
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It’s a fist-sized piece of granite that speaks to the history hidden beneath the paved streets and manicured yards in…
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ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece – Even without the help of Apollo, the flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics…
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A Roman statue dating back almost 2,000 years has been discovered by construction workers building a parking lot in the…
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A small stone vial discovered in southeastern Iran contained a red cosmetic that was likely used as a lip coloring…
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Off a narrow stone street and through several open-air rooms, a gate opens onto a garden that, 2,000 years ago,…
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